kids' rooms

[mum2bubba]

Sorry if this is the wrong place.

I am wondering if Hayley and Skye should share a room, not yet coz Skye is still in with me and Grant and the house we're in now the bedrooms are a bit too small to fit two beds (or a bed and a cot) but I mean when we get our own home (we're renting) I know it might seem like a silly question to ask now but we want to get our own home hopefully next year and if we can't afford a 3 b/r place then it'll have to be a 2 b/r (though we SHOULD be able to afford a 3 b/r).

I shared a b/r with my sisters I never had my own room and I didn't mind it too much. Does anyone's kids share a bedroom? What are the pros and cons?

I am thinking even if we DO get a 3 b/r house we can put the kids together (provided the rooms are a decent size) and using the 3rd b/r as a study or a spare room or something (my sister and I shared a room but the third room was a play-room/study).

Thanks in advance for your replies. :thumbsup:

[Zada]

we've hopefully brought a house:fingerscrossed: its a 2 bedroom (can make it 3 tho). My 2 are going to be sharing a room and I am leaving the house as having 2 loungerooms. so one will be a toy room/lounge for the kids.

[rynosmum]

I was talking to someone the other day who had just put their 2 in the same room (even though they have 5 bedrooms). Their reasoning made perfect sense and has me considering the same thing (if we are ever blessed enough to have another one).

They said that tween and teen suicide is on the rise. Kids with their own bedroom would have a problem or a fight with someone (maybe even Mum and Dad) and would go and stew about it in their rooms alone. Kids who shared rooms were able to go in there and talk about it with a sibling and generally work it out.

It does make some sort of sense...

[~Candy~]

We have a 3 br house and 4 kids...the 2 boys share a room and the 2 girls share a room. The boys...there's NO probs there as Justin is 8 and Corey is 8 months....lol
The girls have 4 yrs between them (Aimee is 6 and Katie is 2) and they get along pretty well in the same room. There's no toys in there...so there's no fighting...it's just their beds, draws, clothes and ofcourse their room is all girly and pretty with butterflies and ponies on the walls. When it's bedtime...Katelin goes first....then Aimee will go once Katelin is asleep..otherwise they wont sleep!...But really....I have nooo probs at all with them all sharing and I think it's good to be close to your siblings....I'm not close to my 2 bro's....I just hope all my kids remain as close as they are now :)

[mim1]

When I was little I shared a room with my brother, til my other little brother came along, so I was age 2 - 5 and my brother was a baby til age 3. Then my brothers shared a room (there is a 3 year age difference) for a few years til the spare bedroom was converted to another bedroom. Don't really know why it wasn't kept as a spare room. I do know that mum has never had her own room cause she shared a room growing up, then has shared a room with dad ever since. Mum has mentioned this more than once, so I suspect that she wanted us to have our own rooms.

We had a holiday house when we were young and I shared a room with both of my brothers when we were down there, but once I reached 13 I moved out to the caravan for a bit more privacy. Before that though it was fine and talking to my brothers at night was fun.

I say that it should be fine, at least til they are teenagers, then depending on your dd's they may be happy to continue to share a room or they may not.

[punkbaby]

This is where Dh and i are arguing we are moving into a 4 bedroom i always shared rooms as a kid geez there were 3 of us in one room at one stage lol....anyhow i feel that we need to keep one room spare for a toy room/spare room ect thanksfully the bedrooms we have are all quiet large so there is no problem sharing. I think its great!! DH never shared he doesnt know what its like to share, i come from a family of 6 kids him from 2...

I guess if this bubba is a girl then in 12 months after it stops sleeping with us our plans to put two in each room and keep one free wont work...if we have a boy it will. Apprently the house we bought had ten kids LOL so we can fit 4 LOL...the only problem i have is my step son who is 14 will need to sleep in with ds as dd9 is a little old to share with him and i feel his too old to share with her on the weekends when he stays
I will work it out when the time comes :D

[mum2bubba]

Thanks people,

rynosmum: I know what you mean about having someone to talk to, my sister and I would always talk about things if we couldn't go to mum and dad (we also annoyed each other too :devil6: but thats a different story?)

Punkbaby: I shared a room with 2 of my sisters at one stage too, I only ever had my own room for about 5 months then my sisters came and lived with us (they have a different mother) also at one time there were 4 of us in the one room (my sister and 2 step sisters). Then when I moved out of home I shared with Grant.
I want to have one room as a spare room or play room or whatever and put a tv in there so that when Grant wants to watch footy the kids can watch a dvd in there or whatever (I don't like having tellies in kids' rooms)

mim1: Hopefully they will continue to share when they're a teenager but if not then I guess we'll have to figure something out (maybe extend the house or make the spare room into a bedroom or something) thats a long way off yet though.

[Mum&bubs]

I was talking to someone the other day who had just put their 2 in the same room (even though they have 5 bedrooms). Their reasoning made perfect sense and has me considering the same thing (if we are ever blessed enough to have another one).

They said that tween and teen suicide is on the rise. Kids with their own bedroom would have a problem or a fight with someone (maybe even Mum and Dad) and would go and stew about it in their rooms alone. Kids who shared rooms were able to go in there and talk about it with a sibling and generally work it out.

It does make some sort of sense...

You've actually got me thinking now. That all makes perfect sense to me. At the moment the girls have their own bedrooms but if we have another child (if it were a girl it'd be sharing with Taliyah, if a boy the boy would have their own room & the girls would share) but now you REALLY have me thinking.